UNASSIGNED: Using data from a large experimental evaluation, the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, this paper explores how parenting and family self-sufficiency services embedded in Early Head Start (EHS), a federally funded, nationally implemented two-generation early childhood program for low-income families lasting from pregnancy and until children are three, contribute to the impacts of the program for both the children and their families.
UNASSIGNED: Parenting support in any modality (home visiting, case management or parent education) contributed to program impacts on important child and family outcomes, but not parent employment. Somewhat surprisingly, family receipt of employment services did not lead to any of the impacts of the program, while education and job training services did. When EHS parents received education or job training services, it led to impacts not only on mother employment, but also on other important family and child outcomes.
UNASSIGNED: These findings validate and reinforce the two-generation approach of EHS, specifically supporting the focus on parenting and parent education and job training.
■使用来自大型实验评估的数据,早期启动研究和评估项目,本文探讨了如何将育儿和家庭自给自足服务嵌入早期开始(EHS)中,联邦政府资助的,为低收入家庭实施的两代幼儿计划,从怀孕到三岁,为该计划对儿童及其家庭的影响做出贡献。
■任何形式的育儿支持(家访,案例管理或家长教育)对计划对重要的儿童和家庭成果的影响做出了贡献,但不是父母就业。令人惊讶的是,家庭接受就业服务没有导致该计划的任何影响,而教育和职业培训服务做到了。当EHS父母接受教育或职业培训服务时,这不仅对母亲的就业产生了影响,还有其他重要的家庭和儿童结果。
■这些发现验证并加强了EHS的两代方法,特别支持关注育儿、家长教育和职业培训。